GREAT DISCOVERIES · c. 4600 BCE
Budj Bim Cultural Landscape, Australia
The system lies in a landscape of lava flows from a volcano. It became a World Heritage Site in 2019.
The story, as a puzzle
Eels in the lava.
For more than 6,600 years, the Gunditjmara people have channelled water through ancient lava flows to trap and farm eels, in one of the world's oldest aquaculture systems. Pin it.
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